In the winter of the 45th year of Jiajing, the 60-year-old Emperor Zhu Houcong died in the Ganqing Palace. The temple was named Shizong and the posthumous title was Qintianludao Yingyi Shengxuan Wen Guangwu Hongren Daxiao Su, and was buried in Yongling, Changping, Beijing.

The successor, his son, Zhu Zai'an, ascended the throne forty-nine days after mourning forty-nine days, changed his lunar name to Longqing, which was the first year of Longqing. When Emperor Longqing succeeded to the throne, he respected the will of the late emperor: those who survived, those who died were summoned and those who died were resigned, and those who saw the prison were released and reinstated.

Among these officials who have reinstated their posts, there is a man from Qiongshan, Hainan named Hai Rui.

The news reached Chen Junye's ears, and it was almost February of the first year of Longqing.

Chen Mu did not empathize with the emperor's death, but felt that the giants of the times took another step forward. Several military households were not as sad as Ke Ze'er. Look at me and I look at you. Finally, it seemed that they were not suitable for others to cry when they were stunned. Shao Tingda raised his legs and kicked Xiaobalang into a big flank, and finally someone cried.

No matter what, it is inappropriate to drink and have fun at this time, but the happy event cannot be stopped. I don’t know what happened to Qingyuanwei this winter. In short, the Luo Qianhu, who was holding a cow with Bai Yuanjie on the city wall, was demoted to Lianzhou in the name of a timid battle, and Bai Yuanjie took over the position of deputy thousand households in the Qianhu Office of Qingcheng by relying on his military achievements in defeating the Japanese pirates.

The arrangements for Chen Mu and others have not been issued yet, but the flag soldiers can't pretend to be sad all day long. They are not even willing to appear at Anyuan Station, running to the caves on the mountain all day long or rushing to the Feishui Bridge to serve on duty - perhaps the place where no one can make them laugh.

Bai Yuanjie was promoted to Qianhu, which more or less means that they were transferred from Anyuan Station as a good place.

But the weather did not go as expected. As spring was coming, the hundred households did not have a new order. Bai Yuanjie had not sent a message for more than ten days. It is said that their duty at Anyuan Station had ended and it was time to go back to the hundred households to deal with the busy farming service, but there was no news at this time. Even the small flags connected to them for their defense did not arrive as scheduled. This form is inevitable that people would guess.

After waiting for half a month, Chen Mu sent someone to the Baihu House, but was told that the vacancies of the New Baihu House were still unsuccessful. He sent someone to Fenghuang Street, Qingyuan City, but was told that the deputy Qianhu Bai Yuanjie had been on a boat east of Beijiang for more than a month and had not yet returned it.

Now even Chen Mu was confused. What was his Shangguan Baibaihu's plan?

No matter what Bai Yuanjie planned, Chen Mu's life would be over. As spring came, since no one sent him a transfer order, he didn't care about the fields of the Baihu House, so he simply continued to live in Anyuanyi. Old Man Zheng and others all sent into the cave to continue to boil the salt. Anyway, after leaving the cave, they would have to seal it. So, they would just use thousands of kilograms of white salt to make!

Cave nitrate is basically not a nitrogen production, but instead, potassium nitrate rich in sedimentary soil in the cave is filtered out by soil method. It is boiled and collected by boiling and collecting based on its insoluble in water but is insoluble as the temperature rises. The yield is limited by the nitrate soil in the cave. One hundred kilograms of nitrate soil and three hundred kilograms of water. After layers of filtration and boiling, you can finally get more than 30 kilograms of saltpeter.

During the past three months, Chen Mu's flag army either carried buckets to and from the riverside and caves throughout the winter, or dug soil in the caves, filtered and boiled them. Even the boiling waste was collected and 16 large tanks of hundreds of kilograms were piled under the caves.

Because of this work, Chen Mu's work-intensive work-intensive Zhu Ding has become stronger after this winter.

Military households did not understand why Chen Mu was interested in wastewater. They were more willing to be happy with the poor and poor soil, especially the two from Japan. Every time Chen Mu went to the cave to check the inventory of tinder, he asked him if he had the idea of ​​selling these saltpeter to Japan. In the Ming Dynasty, saltpeter was forbidden to go to sea, and in the Ming Dynasty, saltpeter smuggling and trafficking to Japan could make a profit of ten times.

In Guangzhou Prefecture, the selling price of saltpeter is 100 kilograms, 4 taels and 8 taels, which is why Linhai is convenient for smuggling and selling. If it is in the north, the price of nitro earth will drop to 100 kilograms, 2 taels and 5 taels and 5 taels.

Although the entrance to the cave at Anyuan Station is small, it is narrow and deep inside the mountain wall. It can be guessed that even if you only take the uppermost layer of nitrite soil, the entire cave will be more than 10,000 kilograms. However, after boiling hundreds of kilograms of saltpeter, the workload of digging the nitrite soil becomes larger and larger, because they need to take a longer distance from the cave to take soil from the cave. Chen Mu estimated that in another month, the soil that can be boiled out of nitrite within a thousand steps of the nitrite cave will be dug clean by them, and no matter how far it is, it will be out of place.

Two thousand eight hundred kilograms of saltpeter, which is probably the most profit that Chen Mu estimated to make in the case of military hard work.

It is difficult to obtain further away nitrate soil and transport it in the cave, which will also delay the efficiency of boiling nitrate. After all, Chen Mu only had three Yu Dings and two from the Japanese to do this, so the manpower is really limited.

But this is enough. Even if they could only earn two thousand kilograms of saltpeter before they were transferred, and after finding the sales route, even if they sold them to the merchants at only two taels or five cents, the profit of fifty taels was enough for him to give three liang and two Japanese pirates each. The lord did not take water and put in less effort, and he also bought people's hearts. In the end, he could still earn twenty taels and those nucleus waste materials.

That is not waste, high concentration of potassium nitrate is saltpeter, and low concentration of light potassium nitrate is fertilizer, the best fertilizer in the world in this era.

Besides, the selling price will only be higher than this, not lower than this, it is worth it.

If you eat and live for free in one winter, you will earn two more years of salary. Is there anything more beautiful in the world than this?

Chen Mu wanted to say that there was really - Shao Tingda found another larger cave seven miles east of the station, and he was still on the road of sustainable development!

Guangdong has many mountains and rivers, and Qingyuan does not lack mountains and rivers. If there are mountains and rivers, there is no shortage of nitride caves.

At present, there are only two nitride holes that Chen Mu knows, except for Anyuan Station, which is enough for them to find an opportunity to work for another year. Larger nitride holes, more manpower, and more production, which means more silver. Perhaps it won’t take long before Chen Mu can build a glass kiln in Qingyuanwei, and then the silver will flow into his hands continuously.

However, that requires a premise, that is, he has more say in Qingyuan, a larger network of relationships, and a stronger force, at least he must have the ability to protect his own small inventions among thousands of military households. Qingyuan Guard is a double-edged sword, which can not only protect his small inventions from being coveted by the outside world, but also inevitably spy from the inside.

Maybe when Chen Junye becomes rich, he can still try to bribe him or her martial arts scholar!
Chapter completed!